Landscaping in Altadena
Big lots are what we expect when we take on landscaping in Altadena, so the front, the back and the long sides each get a price of their own. Call (310) 857-2520 and we'll come walk yours with you.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
Late in summer, a big lawn shows you where the sun has been. The green patches are where the house, the garage or a fence shades the grass for some of the day. The tan ones had the sun from morning to evening.
If your lawn looks like that, you already have a map of your lot. We'd follow it, with planting for full sun on the tan ground and grass or turf where it stayed green.
What one free yard visit gets you
- A free yard visit within 3 business days. Paver and turf samples come with us.
- One quote with a price for each part of the yard. It reaches you by email within 1 business day of the visit.
- Turf and planting priced side by side. Where either could go, your quote names the one we would put there.
- One crew lead, with a direct number. Whoever walks the lot with you at the visit runs the build and the final walkthrough.
- What we build is covered for 1 year. What we plant is covered for 12 weeks, with a check visit in that time.
How the price adds up when there is a lot of ground
The price comes from the parts you want done and what's in them now, and we measure both at the visit.
- The front lawn. On a big lot this can be the largest piece. Its price follows how much grass comes out and what goes in, and you can have it priced with the parkway or without.
- The patio. We price flagstone and paver patios by their size and the stone you pick. If you want curves or a border, those add to it.
- The walks. A long lot means long walks. We price paver walkways by how far they run, so tell us which ones you use every day.
- The way to the back. If your driveway runs past the house to a garage behind it, pavers and plants can come in that way, and that keeps this piece of the price small. Tell us if something blocks it.
One crew lead runs your whole job.
Whoever walks the lot with you at the free visit runs the build and the final walkthrough, and you get their direct number that day. A question about the slope or the side gate goes to the person who measured it.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
- Free yard visit, booked within 3 business daysPaver and turf samples come with us.
- One quote with a price for each part of the yard
- Turf and planting priced side by side
- One crew lead, with a direct number
Reading the map on your lawn
The lawn is tan in the open and green along the edges
If the only green is where something shades the grass, the open ground gets more sun than that grass likes. More water may keep it alive, but it will look the same next August.
We'd take the grass out of the tan ground and plant it. We pick plants for the heat your part of LA gets. Where the lawn stayed green, real grass does fine, and we lay new sod there if the old lawn is worn.
Where artificial grass would go on your lawn
Turf heats up on summer afternoons, so we'll tell you which spots catch that sun. On your lawn, those are the tan patches.
If you want artificial turf, the patches that stayed green are the place for it, because something already shades them. The choices for the rest are in what goes where the lawn was.
If there is room on your lot for more
Each of these goes on the same quote as the rest of the yard, with its own price.
- A pergola or a patio cover. We build both, over a new patio or the one you have. If your patio sits in one of the tan spots, this is how it gets shade.
- An outdoor kitchen. We build it and bring the gas line, the water and the power out to it, so you deal with one company.
- Landscape lighting. We set lights along the walks and by the steps, and the wiring is ours to do.
- Sod. We lay sod where you want a real lawn. If you'd like to keep some grass, ask us which ground has enough shade for it.
When a tan patch is the sprinklers and not the sun
- The sidewalk is wet and the lawn beside it is dry. If you see that in the morning, a head has turned or sunk and is watering the concrete. We straighten it or replace it.
- One corner never gets water. A tan corner can be the sun, or it can be a head that doesn't reach. If yours is tan while the grass next to it in the same sun is green, tell us, and we check the heads before anything is replanted.
- Somebody else built the yard. We repair sprinklers on yards we didn't build as well as on our own.
- The yard is being changed. Drip or sprinkler changes come with any build that needs them.
- The yard is one we built. After handover we can stay on to prune, weed, top up the mulch and check the drip each season. It is for yards we built, and we don't run a weekly mow-and-blow route.
Around an Altadena house, one side at a time
- The parkway and the front lawn. If the strip by your curb is bare, we do front yard and parkway planting there with plants for full sun. The lawn behind it can be done with it or left as it is.
- The side that faces south. If one long side of your Craftsman, Spanish or ranch house faces south, that side has the sun on it for most of the day in every season. We plant it for full sun and keep grass and turf off it.
- The side that faces north. The house shades this side for most of the year, and grass comes in thin. If you walk down it to reach the back, we'd lay a paver walk there and plant along it with ones that like shade.
Call (310) 857-2520 or book the free yard visit online, and tell us where your lawn stayed green.
We also come out to Glendale, La Crescenta and Pasadena for free yard visits.
Book one visit for the whole yard.
It's free, and you'll hear what we'd do in every part of it.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.